CVE-2000-0077 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the HP-UX aserver program, specifically affecting the October 1998 version of HP-UX. Local users can exploit this by manipulating the PATH environment variable, causing aserver to execute malicious versions of ps and grep. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a critical risk with local access, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog and showing no active community discussion or media coverage, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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